Five university researchers from Hong Kong and China have created an application called DeepFaceDrawing which “allows users with little training in drawing to produce high-quality images from rough or even incomplete freehand sketches”. Abstract of the team’s academic paper Recent deep image-to-image translation techniques allow fast generation of face images from freehand sketches. However, existing solutions tend […]
In this video from the series Hugo’s Desk, London-based director and VFX supervisor Hugo Guerra shows us his home studio set-up and talks about best practices to build a home studio for your own creative work during the current COVID-19 lockdown. He covers pipelines, strategies, suggestions and setups for editors, designers and VFX artists ranging […]
Transforming media asset management and quality control The DPP and Digital Catapult, with the support of Microsoft and Cognizant, have launched an initiative to identify technology startups and scaleups working in artificial intelligence and machine learning who can help them to transform media content creation and distribution, including media asset management and quality control. “Companies […]
Following on from reports on the early roll-out in the Bundesliga, SVG Europe Editor Will Strauss’s new focus is how the English Premier League is going to look, and sound, when it returns to our screens on 17 June. You may already know that Will appeared on the first new Informed Sauce podcast (15 May) […]
Writing on Ars Technica, Kyle Orland reveals that Sega wants to use its idle gaming arcades hardware to distribute a new kind of cloud-gaming service that’s been dubbed “fog gaming” for adopting Cisco’s “fog computing” model. Spare arcade capacity According to Arcade Heroes’ Adam Pratt, arcade games are only played for an average eight hours […]
HPE’s rearranged Discover Virtual Experience begins in a couple of weeks – 23 June to be precise. The online event will feature a keynote speech by HPE CEO Antonio Neri followed by a wide range of breakout sessions and presentations, some of which are listed below. AMD EPYC: The New Leader for Your Data Center […]